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Yes Rollo Duke of Normandy agreed to go Christian and have his vikings convert.to appease the Franks in 1200. Was it a good decision? Maybe Europeans thrived in spite of the religion rather than because of it. What happened happened, and we can only speculate what happened or would have happened otherwise. I can imagine an alternate history if he did not do this. Maybe the English, French, and Russian revolutions and disastrous European civil wars (WW1 & 2) would not have happened under a pagan Nordic empire.

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Kevin Alfred Strom 4mo ago

If the Classical civilization created by our race had never fallen, and the libraries and philosophical schools had not been destroyed by the Christians, we might have discovered America in 492 instead of 1492, set foot on the Moon in 969 instead of 1969, and had a thousand other advances we can't even imagine now.

a8996767... 4mo ago

There actually is a serious theory that approximately 1000 years were added incorrectly. (In my opinion to distance us from the classical Roman civilization that was hated so much, but I digress.)

I read the first book of "History: fiction or science" by Anatoly Fomenko. He has a purely mathematical approach, proving that many historical writings from different epochs are really describing one and the same thing. And are thus of a similar age.

I personally couldn't point out any issues with his approach and believe he's right.

Can really recommend the book if interested.